Another could I claim to be Hispanic question?

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We spent a week in Cancun over winter break. Can I claim my kids are Hispanic? They really identified with the culture, especially at the Benihanas.

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Anonymous wrote:You are Hispanic if you or your parents are from a Spanish speaking country. There is no more to it. It doesn't matter how you look like. I am a white, caucasian Hispanic because I am originally from Argentina.
I you are from Spain, you are also Hispanic. Is about language, not race.
This said a person from Spain is Hispanic but not Latino. Latino means your ancestry is from Latin America.

Ok and I always thought that someone from Spain is NOT Hispanic, because they are European. I've always understood Hispanic to mean being mixed with Spanish/Portugese & Native American blood. Not saying I'm right and you're wrong. But it does seem to me that Hispanic is a fuzzy category for a lot of people.

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I should mention that I have a friend who moved here from Portugal and she does not consider herself Hispanic in any way.

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Anonymous wrote:I should mention that I have a friend who moved here from Portugal and she does not consider herself Hispanic in any way.

She doesn't speak Spanish and she's not from South America,

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Anonymous wrote:You are Hispanic if you or your parents are from a Spanish speaking country. There is no more to it. It doesn't matter how you look like. I am a white, caucasian Hispanic because I am originally from Argentina.
I you are from Spain, you are also Hispanic. Is about language, not race.
This said a person from Spain is Hispanic but not Latino. Latino means your ancestry is from Latin America.

Ok and I always thought that someone from Spain is NOT Hispanic, because they are European. I've always understood Hispanic to mean being mixed with Spanish/Portugese & Native American blood. Not saying I'm right and you're wrong. But it does seem to me that Hispanic is a fuzzy category for a lot of people.

The U.S. Census Bureau defines the ethnonym Hispanic or Latino to refer to "a person of Cuban, Mexican, Puerto Rican, South or Central American, or other Spanish culture or origin regardless of race" and states that Hispanics or Latinos can be of any race, any ancestry, any ethnicity.

So no, that is why it's a bullshit classification.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You are Hispanic if you or your parents are from a Spanish speaking country. There is no more to it. It doesn't matter how you look like. I am a white, caucasian Hispanic because I am originally from Argentina.
I you are from Spain, you are also Hispanic. Is about language, not race.
This said a person from Spain is Hispanic but not Latino. Latino means your ancestry is from Latin America.

Ok and I always thought that someone from Spain is NOT Hispanic, because they are European. I've always understood Hispanic to mean being mixed with Spanish/Portugese & Native American blood. Not saying I'm right and you're wrong. But it does seem to me that Hispanic is a fuzzy category for a lot of people.

The word "Hispanic" comes from the word "Hispania," which refers to the Iberian peninsula. The Iberian peninsula is in Europe.

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Anonymous wrote:Or more accurately, half Hispanic. My mother was from Trinidad, which is an English speaking country. Her looks were what most people would consider to be Hispanic (family was Venezuelan immigrants who had lived in Trinidad for a few generations). Does it matter that Trinidad is not Spanish speaking? I would think most people would consider all Caribbean/Central/South American countries Hispanic, regardless of the actual language spoken.

No, the Caribbean countries, such as Guyana, Haiti, Jamaica, Dominica, Bahamas, Aruba, Anguilla, Trinidad, etc. are not Hispanic.

OP here. That's what I'm wondering, if the Caribbean countries are considered to be Hispanic. But to further complicate matters, my mother comes from a family that immigrated to Trinidad from Venezuela generations ago. They identify themselves as Trinidadian not Venezuelan, but they "look" Venezuelan. Would that be considered Hispanic?

Are you the college applicant or the applicant's mom?

I think will all know that op is mommy